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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Post by rvz »

ISL wrote: post #11
iamben wrote: post #7

Elon Musk as well. Tweets still up, saying "Feeling greatful, doubling all payments sent to my BTC address! You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for the next 30 minutes." As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC. Edit: Just seen @BillGates compromised as well, same bitcoin account. Edit 2: Elon's tweet seems to be getting removed, and then reposted again shortly after. About $40k…

Tweet is down now, but still in Google's cache.

They are reposting the same message on the hacked accounts again. This is a coordinated Twitter hack.

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Post by kawfey »

jacquesm wrote: post #36

Still going on. https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907 What a disaster this stuff. Wonder how it was done.

It's amusing that the tweets keep coming, get deleted, reappear, get deleted...

I can't help but imagine how any account on twitter would be safe if the Bill Gates', Elon Musk's, and top crypto site's Twitters are compromised.

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Post by lessname »

Reason077 wrote: post #17

So many accounts are affected, this seems to be a system-level hack rather than a compromise of individual accounts. Someone has found a way to post a tweet from any account they like?

I do not think that a 3rd party tweet scheduling program has been hacked, because the tweets say they have been sent by “Twitter Web App”. Maybe the new feature on twitter.com to schedule tweets has a security vulnerability?

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Post by claudeganon »

SwiftyBug wrote: post #47

The attacker already made over 5 BTC: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...

I’m sure they’ll hold onto them, considering they ran a scam on one of the world’s richest people who made the NSA’s favorite operating system.

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Post by adjkant »

jrv wrote: post #48
Tenoke wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The leaked credentials of an employee at a tweet scheduling service theory sounds more plausible to me on the face of it.

Wouldn't Twitter have locked the affected accounts by now then?

As of your post it would seem to be a 20-30 minute response time. Happening fast it seems.

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Post by SwiftyBug »

smnrchrds wrote: post #60
SwiftyBug wrote: post #47

The attacker already made over 5 BTC: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...

I am not familiar with BTC markets. How would they be able to collect? Wouldn't everyone be watching that wallet like hawk, making it impossible to withdraw without revealing their identity?

There are services that are able to obfuscate a transfer of BTC, which really only makes it very laborious to trace the money.

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Post by blablablub »

ISL wrote: post #11
iamben wrote: post #7

Elon Musk as well. Tweets still up, saying "Feeling greatful, doubling all payments sent to my BTC address! You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for the next 30 minutes." As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC. Edit: Just seen @BillGates compromised as well, same bitcoin account. Edit 2: Elon's tweet seems to be getting removed, and then reposted again shortly after. About $40k…

Tweet is down now, but still in Google's cache.

One thing we know now is that Twitter can take tweets down really quickly if they want.
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